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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Leucothoe

Hierarchical position of the Genus Leucothoe

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Rosopsida Batsch pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.       Subclassis  Dilleniidae Takht. ex Reveal & Tahkt. pub. 1993       SuperOrdo  Ericanae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 221. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Ericales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 28. 1829.       Subordo  Ericineae Burnett pub. Outl. Bot.: 901, 937, 938, 1108. Jun 1835.       Familia  Ericaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 159. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Heaths, Heathers       Genus  Leucothoe D.Don common name: doghobble

Named members of the Genus Leucothoe

1	Species  acuminata (Ait.) G. Don syn. Agarista populifolia
2	Species  axillaris (Lam.) D. Don
	3    Varietas  ambigens Fern. syn. Leucothoe axillaris 4    Varietas  editorum (Fern. & Schub.) Ahles syn. Leucothoe fontanesiana
5	Species  catesbaei (Walt.) Gray syn. Leucothoe axillaris common name: dog hobble
6	Species  davisiae Torr. ex Gray common name: Sierra laurel
7	Species  editorum Fern. & Schub. syn. Leucothoe fontanesiana
8	Species  elongata Small syn. Leucothoe racemosa
9	Species  fontanesiana (Steud.) Sleumer common name: highland doghobble
10	Species  platyphylla Small syn. Leucothoe axillaris
11	Species  populifolia (Lam.) Dippel syn. Agarista populifolia
12	Species  racemosa (L.) Gray
	13    Varietas  projecta Fern. syn. Leucothoe racemosa
14	Species  recurva (Buckl.) Gray common name: redtwig doghobble
15	Species  walteri Melvin syn. Agarista populifolia

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.